Buckle.



S. EIGHBERG.

' BUCKLE.

APPLICATION IIL'ED JULY 19, 1912.

1,088,408. PaLtented Feb. 24, 191

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WiTiVESSEfi Jhmvrm UNITED l i k ft llifh it? SIMON EICH'BERG, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS.

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Specification of Application filed. July 19.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, SIMON ElCIIBERG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of Chicago, county of Cook, and 'State of Illinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Buckles, of which the following is a specification.

The essential object of this invention is to provide a new and useful buckle adapted to be made out of a single piece of sheet metal or other similar material, the buckle being so formed that it will tightly grasp the belt elastic or similar article without tearing the goods.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a top plan View of a buckle embodying the invention, said buckle being a double one; Fig. 9, is a top plan view of a buckle which is a single buckle; Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the buckle shown in Fig. 1; Fig. 4: is a side elevaiion of the device shown in Fig. 2; and Fig. 5 is an end elevation depicting either form.

All parts are stamped or cut from a single integral piece of spring metal or other suitable material. The buckle is provided with a spring-like tongue 1, which preferably has a strai ht or toothless edge and which is adapte to come into close engagement with the edge 2 of the front bar of the buckle, said bar forming one wall of the aperture 3, within which aperture 3 the tongue 1 is adapted to move. The main body 4- has its end 5 bent so that same projects beyond the edge 2 and beneath the tongue 1. A stirrup 6 serves to retain the strap or similar member 7 in connection with which the device is intended to be used.

loose end oi. the strap 7 is tween the s 'n'ing-like tongue 2 of the front bar, as cl at of the drawings. The strap 7 passes beneath the edge or lip 5, thence through the space between the edge 2 and the edge of the tongue 1. If said strap be pulled toward the left, Fig. 41-, the effect, obviously, will be to pull the tongue 1. more tightly against the edge 2, and ii. perchance said tongue should pass said edge 2, it will be pulled downwardly against the turned-in lip 5. The tongue 1, therefore, will catch and retain the strap and prevent the same from loosening either by grasping the strap between the left-hand edge of tongue 1 and between the left-hand edge of tongue 1 and turned-in lip 5. lVhcn the double buckle, shown in Figs. 1 and 3, is to be used, the same is aflixed to the strap 7, as shown in Fig. 3 of the drawings.

I claim as my invention:

A buckle composed of a single piece of metal and provided with a tongue, the loose end of which bears a straight edge, a straight-edged bar opposite said tongue whereby the fabric is adapted to be clumped between the tongue and the bar, that end of the buckle at which the bar is placed being formed with a turned-in lip, said lip projecting underneath the straight edge of said bar and beyond the same to a point beneath the tongue and in the path of travel of the loose end of the tongue, and a loop secured to the body of the buckle.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto ailixed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

SIMON EIGHBERG.

then passed be- 1 and the edge early shown in Fig.

/Vitnesses:

Anni. R. Gns'rarson, Rona. KLorz.

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